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AMF: A Better File Format for 3D Printing?


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http://www.shapeways...D-Printing.html

Developed by the American Society for Testing and Materials under the leadership of Professor Hod Lipson of Cornell University AMF addresses what STL lacks with a more advanced file structure including object, material, texture, constellation and metadata with a specifiable unit system, curved triangles, Metadata and all of this in half the size of a comparable STL file....

Curved Triangles

200px-Curved_triangle.jpg

http://en.wikipedia....ing_File_Format

AMF stores surface depth color...you could feasibly make objects with it that had rainbow gradient translucent transparent surfaces in depth. AMF can store that information.

The Objet Eden could print that.

http://www.stratasys.../objet-eden500v

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